David Mamet
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David Mamet is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his sharp, rapid-fire dialogue and works such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American Buffalo."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Mamet canonical | 42 |
| Mamet | 2 |
| Don Mamet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749264 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Mamet Context triple: [The Unit, creator, David Mamet]
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A.
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, often haunting depictions of the American West and family dysfunction in works like "Buried Child" and "True West."
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B.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard is a renowned British playwright and screenwriter known for his intellectually playful, linguistically inventive works such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and numerous acclaimed stage and film scripts.
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C.
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright and filmmaker known for his sharply observed, character-driven works such as the play "This Is Our Youth" and the film "Manchester by the Sea."
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D.
Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
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E.
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally was an acclaimed American playwright known for his insightful, often darkly comic explorations of human relationships, LGBTQ+ themes, and contemporary social issues in works such as "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Mamet Target entity description: David Mamet is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his sharp, rapid-fire dialogue and works such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American Buffalo."
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A.
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, often haunting depictions of the American West and family dysfunction in works like "Buried Child" and "True West."
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B.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard is a renowned British playwright and screenwriter known for his intellectually playful, linguistically inventive works such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and numerous acclaimed stage and film scripts.
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C.
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright and filmmaker known for his sharply observed, character-driven works such as the play "This Is Our Youth" and the film "Manchester by the Sea."
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D.
Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
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E.
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally was an acclaimed American playwright known for his insightful, often darkly comic explorations of human relationships, LGBTQ+ themes, and contemporary social issues in works such as "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David Mamet Description of subject: David Mamet is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his sharp, rapid-fire dialogue and works such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American Buffalo."
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mack Gerhardt
this entity surface form:
Mamet
this entity surface form:
Don Mamet
subject surface form:
About Last Night (1986 film)
this entity surface form:
Mamet
subject surface form:
Blake (Glengarry Glen Ross)
subject surface form:
Blake (Glengarry Glen Ross)